Des FitzGerald
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Monday’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s The Harvesters, is by painter Claire Halpin (details in alt text). This painting is available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie for details. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald
LONDON UNDERGROUND FASHION 🚇 PHOTO / 8 Broccoli dress at Brockley London Overground station
There are less than ten days left to view the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. The exhibition spans all gallery spaces at the RHA, offering a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary artistic practice in Ireland and beyond. View and make purchases at rhagallery.ie
The Buck moon over Ely Cathedral last night in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
The talented illustrator / scholar Peter Connolly is remembered for his reconstructions of ancient armies But did you know that he frequently managed to get himself in the picture? Usually as an Iron Age chieftain, king or druid 😆👍 #FindingConnolly #Archaeology #HillfortsWednesday #AncientBlueSky
Louise on the set of Just Another Blonde (1926) with a copy of Anita Loos’ bestselling 1925 novel “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Photo by James Doolittle.
This is how I’ll remember Glen Hansard - in front of a huge crowd of Dubliners, singing ‘Fairytale of New York’ last December. Glen organised the Christmas Eve Busk every year in aid of homelessness and the Simon Community. Such a terrible and untimely loss - hope he’s up there jamming with Shane 💔
We’re now into the second last week of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends on Sunday 9th August. Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-5pm; Wednesday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. View the Annual online at rhagallery.ie
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Just glorious - long time holiday maker in Mayo. So glad their day finally came...
Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
Woonschool (Housing School), De Ravelijn, Maastricht: 104 homes, school and community centre built by the Catholic housing association Sint Servatius in the 1950s specifically to 're-educate' slum families deemed antisocial.
In celebration of Amelia Earhart on her birthday: The Library of Congress recently used a special piece of optical imaging equipment to solve the mystery of what was contained on a tiny 78 rpm record tucked into the back of a copy of Earhart's 1932 memoir. Hear it!: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/04/...
There are just THREE more weekends to see the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends on Sunday 9th August. View and make purchases online any time at rhagallery.ie #RHA196#McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #AlwaysFreeAdmission
Friday’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald comes from Dublin-born sculptor Michael Foley (details in alt text). This sculpture is available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for details. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald
Just a selection of the incredible work on view in this year’s RHA Annual Exhibition – have you visited yet? The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, ends on Sunday 9th August. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie Installation images: Ros Kavanagh.
The BEST read in the Irish Times so far this year 📰 Today's front page news: “The poor man from north Mayo or the woman from west Cork trying to find a wife or a husband will have to curtail their evening."
“A serious creative leap forward for the acclaimed avant-folk songwriter……. Simultaneously a huge-sounding record and an intimate seance.” Really pleased with this 4* review of my new album in Hi Fi Choice Magazine.
I'm excited to announce that I collaborated with Peter Rogers on this album (out today), inspired by Melissa Harrison's incredible latest novel The Given World. "This is the world of the book, made music. Each listen undoes me again.” – Melissa Harrison peterrogers.bandcamp.com/album/the-gi...
The Given World, by Peter Rogers and Laura Cannell
9 track album
peterrogers.bandcamp.com
📺 Exciting news! Ina Boyle’s legacy features in new RTÉ documentary 'Trinity’s Treasures'. 🎶If you're in Ireland, you can watch the episode live tomorrow! 📅 Fri 24 July | 20:30 | RTÉ One | Or catch-up via the RTÉ Player. www.inaboyle.org/ibsl-blog-po... #InaBoyle #TrinityCollegeDublin #RTÉ
Ina Boyle to feature in RTÉ's 'Trinity's Treasures' broadcast — Ina Boyle Society Limited
We are pleased to share that Ina Boyle’s legacy is featured in a new three-part RTÉ documentary series, Trinity’s Treasures , which highlights the historic collections held at Trinity College Dublin.
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In celebration of our Summer 2026 print issue, @cinemasips.bsky.social shares her cinematic summer travels. #moviezine #summertravel #moviehotels
Summer Travels on the Classic Hollywood Highway — Moviejawn
by Liz Locke, Staff Writer When it came time to pick a summer vacation destination, the question I asked myself was not, “Where should I go?” but rather, “Where did they go?”
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It’s Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final day as the Tribesmen of Galway take on the Treaty County of Limerick. Today’s pick from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald is this work from Siobhán O’Callaghan (details in alt text). Best of luck to all today!
Saturday’s featured artwork from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald is by Helen G Blake. Helen’s painting is one of almost 600 pieces on view in the Annual, and it’s available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for details. #RHA196
Today’s artwork from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald comes from Jason Ellis. Originally from Cornwall, Jason moved to Dublin in the mid 1990s, where he began to carve pieces to commission. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported
We're really excited today because our new environmental monitoring system has just gone live! To find out about how @heritagecouncil.ie has helped us see edwardworthlibrary.ie/preserving-o... and see our events during Heritage Week Details here: edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-eve...
It’s Bastille Day today and we’re featuring Sharon Murphy’s photograph Cheval en Scène as our daily featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald (details in alt text). #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland #BastilleDay #14Juillet
The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald – have 🫵 visited yet? Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-5pm; Wednesday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. The exhibition ends on Sunday 9th August. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie
![[Scene is at sea - we see Odysseus’s ship sailing past an island]
NARRATOR:
And next on his Odyssey
Sir Christopher Nolan led his followers
[We see that instead of Odysseus it is CHRIS NOLAN captaining the ship]
Past the Island of X
Inhabited by People Who Criticise Films From Just Watching The Trailer
[Show a load of guys on the rocks of the island, all tapping away on their phones]
They were led by their King,
the Musk.
The Musk stayed up all night in his cave
[Show a giant Elon Musk hunched over his computer at night in a cave, tapping away]
Posting comments about how he thinks Lupita Nyong’o is the wrong colour to be Helen of Troy, who wasn’t real
But Sir Christopher was immune to the song of the people of X
because he famously didn’t have a smartphone.
NOLAN [at the front of his ship, bellowing into the storm and waving his Nokia brick phone]:
I DON’T EVEN HAVE EMAAAAIL
[Narrator again]:
And he turned to his followers
NOLAN [turning to all the guys on his ship, all Nolanbro types, looking at their phones]
MEN!
Put down your mobile telephones! Do not listen to the sirens of X!
[Intense, Nolan-style close up on Nolan’s big, serious face]
NOLAN:
Some people will not like my big serious film…
But some people will like it...
and that’s fine.
[Ship sailing into the distance]:
MEN:
Hurrah!
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